Holy hell! I just got the email! I cannot believe it. Here we go again!. These concepts (look almost real) look incredible. Post war SW universe. They look like the SW i remember as a kid! JJ - good job so far. I have not read a single rumor. Hope i can hold on to that! (righttttt)

Great stuff! Been a steady visitor of MF since the end of the Prequels, the site has always been full of insightful analysis and information. Glad to have been given the opportunity to join the community.

MF DP is the man, took me years to get registered here. So happy to be able to good show.

these are fantastic, very much in the world I want to see. Story is for another day but visually unbelievable.whom ever came up with the Downed AT-AT as a home deserves a raise! that is far more than I thought from descriptions.

I love this image... the fact that there's another at-at, a scout walkers head & the downed tie fighter all partially buried in the sand makes me think it might be an old abandoned Imperial garrison. This movie is gonna blow the socks off anything we've seen previous!

Nice!! Vader helmet looks awsome. Grave robber looks nasty. Looks like we are going to get a decent dose of Vader in this next one. Not sure how that storyline is going to play out. Exactly what I'm looking for...it's going to be a great build up.

Just out of interest, here's a reminder of Mollo's original sketch for a character called Montross, on the right:

The name, at various times during the genesis of ANH, referred to the science officer on a pirate ship, an Imperial bureaucrat, and then one of Jabba's right-hand men...

It will be interesting to see how the name is recycled here. I don't reckon Montross is our "grave-robber", I reckon he's more of a link to the underworld our heroes go to for info.

As if he's somehow linked the the people who actually do the cybernetic parts - or went to the same people/planet as the grave-robber did for his parts - and can lead our heroes to them... If you look at him, he's more of a sympathetic, down-and-out sort of character. Slumped at a bar with a drink.

And that sketch of him passing a document or pass of some kind across the table. Or maybe he's gambling. Either way, it's a classic "informant/underworld connection" type pose. He doesn't look "evil" like the grave-robber dude.

Concept art of Imperial Han and cyborg Chewie + rumors of Luke being the new villain, makes it seem like the lines are blurring.

The old quote by Lucas that the Sequels would be more abstract and deal with moral choices made by the new generation etc. makes sense. It definitely could be that after decades of fighting, the heros become the villains. In the Prequels, the public handed away their power to a tyrant. In the Sequels, the public became the tyrants?

It's beautiful, indeed. I now wonder about the identity of the artists. Also, are these images that were approved by Lucas prior to the Disney sale or have these been developed under Abrams’ guidance?

Via Antiqua wrote:

Judging from the different Pics i wonder if it is Anakin's AOTC Saber or Anakin/Luke's ROTS/ANH Saber.

Anakin’s AOTC saber got bifurcated in a droid factory. So, I doubt that's the answer. It looks a bit like the ROTS/ANH saber, but not spot-on.

It’s possible that it’s not a Skywalker hilt, but one that's mistakenly identified as being either Anakin's or Luke’s.

bearvomit wrote:

The Graverobber guy is NOT Luke

I have to agree. Presumably, the artist would have made the likeness resemble Hamill if the character is in fact Luke.

It might be my imagination, but the jawline has a similarity to Ian McDirmind’s. (Consequently, Palpatine’s first name has recently been confirmed as Sheev.)

Who knows if the identity of the cyborg will be revealed in this episode or a later one?

Topeka wrote:

The castle evokes the gothic lair that was concepted for Vader.

Yes, but it also looks a lot like Serenno. The image may lend credence to the rumor about one or more of Dooku's decedents playing a part in the film. (Maybe Gwendoline Christie plays the “Countess Dooku?” After all, she’s only a few inches shorter than Christopher Lee.)

I apologize if this has been mentioned already: Entertinment Weekly has an article about the images / this site.

Has anyone else noted in the "Carosel" pictures, that there's actually a smaller YT-1300 freighter that's being referenced, that's a bit different than the falcon? Maybe those x-wings weren't with the Falcon, but with this new freighter.

Has anyone else noted in the "Carosel" pictures, that there's actually a smaller YT-1300 freighter that's being referenced, that's a bit different than the falcon? Maybe those x-wings weren't with the Falcon, but with this new freighter.

I think the smaller one is reference to the original Falcon model. Correct me if I'm wrong but I remember reading that they used a smaller outside model where the actual 1:1 interior set would have not fit inside. Now they scaled the Falcon bigger so it can have the actual 1:1 interior. So now the Falcon is as big as it should actually be.